From the outset of Dubus’s career Godine was responsible for publishing him, supplying readers with handsome editions of the majority of his canon — Dubus would switch to the larger, richer Knopf near the end of his career due to financial concerns.

The Russian government, in return, was said to supply Trump with secrets about his political rivals while collecting compromising information on him, including recording him with prostitutes who supposedly urinated on a bed in a Moscow hotel.

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Origin and Etymology of supply

Middle English supplien to complete, compensate for, from Middle French soupplier, from Latin supplēre to fill up, complete, raise (a military unit, crew) to its full complement, substitute, from sub- up + plēre to fill — more at sub-, full

When Russian troops entered Crimea in 2014, Sentsov was among many volunteers who brought food and supplies to Ukrainian soldiers blocking the border between mainland Ukraine and then Russian-occupied Crimea.

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